Sky Curtain: The opening scene explains the four major cases of the Ming Dynasty plus the early Ming

"The founding father?"

These four words, like a thunderclap from the heavens, exploded in the minds of everyone in all time and space!

What does that mean?

Confucius's descendants blame Confucius himself for their ungrateful and subservient behavior.

This is absolutely ridiculous!

Spring and Autumn Period.

Confucius had just been helped to catch his breath by his disciples when he heard these words. He was so angry that he almost fainted again.

"Spreading fallacies! Spreading fallacies!"

He pointed at the AI-generated "patriarch" on the sky, his lips trembling, unable to even finish his sentence.

"You...you unfilial descendant! How dare you...how dare you slander me like this!"

Throughout his life, he traveled to various states, living a nomadic life, all in order to promote his benevolent rule and restore the glory of the Zhou Dynasty.

He taught his disciples to "discipline themselves and return to propriety," and to "behave as rulers, ministers, fathers, and sons."

When did he ever teach future generations to "be pragmatic" and to become traitors or collaborators?

However, the smile on the face of the AI ​​Kong family head on the sky did not change in the slightest.

The smile even carried a hint of pity, as if looking at a stubborn old man.

"Ancestor, don't be so quick to deny it."

"You may not have said it directly, but aren't your actions and the history you uphold sending this message to us and to the world?"

He paused, then his voice suddenly rose, booming like a great bell, deafening and resounding!

"Let's start from the beginning!"

"Ancestor, please tell the world, what kind of person was Di Xin, the last ruler of the Shang Dynasty in ancient times?"

Emperor Xin?

King Zhou of Shang?

Upon hearing this name, people from all time and space couldn't help but frown.

Wasn't that a notorious tyrant in history?

Wine pools and meat forests, the torture of branding, favoring Daji, persecuting loyal officials... he was wicked to the core!

Why bring him up?

Inside the Hongwu Hall, Zhu Yuanzhang also looked puzzled.

His impression of King Zhou of Shang also came from various historical books and folk tales, which portrayed him as a thoroughly incompetent and tyrannical ruler.

But for some reason, he always felt that since Tianmu had brought him up at this time, things were definitely not simple.

Above the sky, the AI ​​patriarch of the Kong family, without waiting for Confucius's reply, continued speaking on his own.

Behind him, the scene began to change, no longer AI-generated, but as if it were calling up the most real images in the long river of time!

He was an exceptionally tall and robust man, clad in black armor and wielding a sharp axe. Standing on the battlefield, facing the siege of barbarians from all sides, his eyes showed no fear, only an air of dominance over the world!

With a single swing of his axe, the earth shook!

With a roar, the entire army retreated!

[Di Xin, a descendant of King Wu Ding of the Shang Dynasty, whose surname was Zi and given name was Shoude, was endowed with extraordinary talent and immense strength, capable of pulling nine oxen backwards and replacing beams and pillars!]

When he ascended the throne, the Shang Dynasty was in decline, its nobility corrupt internally, and its eastern, southern, and western tribes eyeing it covetously from the outside.

Emperor Xin was determined to reform, cracking down on the old aristocracy, promoting generals from commoner backgrounds, abolishing cruel human sacrifice, and vigorously developing agriculture and production!

Throughout his life, he waged wars in the south and north, expanding the territory of China from the Yellow River basin to the Yangtze River basin in one fell swoop, and completely integrating the Dongyi tribes into the system of Chinese civilization!

He was the greatest contributor in Chinese history to unifying the southeast and laying the foundation for the territory that would follow!

The figure of Di Xin in the picture is completely different from the "King Zhou" who indulged in wine and women in later generations!

He was a pioneer! A reformer! A hero with a distinguished military record!

Everyone in all time and space who witnessed this scene was stunned!

This...this is King Zhou of Shang?

How is that possible!

The history books don't say that he...

The AI-generated voice of the Kong family head became incredibly sarcastic.

"History book? Which history book are you talking about?"

"Was it a history book written by people from the Zhou Dynasty? Or was it a history book 'revised' by us Confucian descendants to curry favor with the Zhou emperor?"

"Family members, aren't you curious? How could such a wise and powerful king, whose achievements are unparalleled throughout the ages, turn overnight into a debauched and tyrannical ruler, indulging in wine, women, and food?"

His gaze seemed to pierce through the screen, striking directly at Confucius from the Spring and Autumn Period!

"For that, we'll have to ask our ancestor, Confucius!"

"Because it was he, and the Zhou Dynasty he admired, who jointly orchestrated this historical smear campaign that lasted for three thousand years!"

"Di Xin, this Chinese hero who died for his country and fought to the last moment, has been nailed to the pillar of historical shame!"

"And Ji Fa, the ruler of Xiqi, who colluded with foreign enemies and betrayed the capital when Emperor Xin's main army was on a distant expedition to the Eastern Yi, became the 'King Wu' who 'followed the will of Heaven and the people'!"

"Ancestor, tell me, did you start this?"

"Stealing from the past five hundred years, stealing from the future five hundred years! Smearing a hero who fought for his country as a shameless villain!"

"To glorify a treacherous traitor into a divinely ordained sage ruler!"

"Aren't we, their descendants, learning these methods of distorting history and reversing right and wrong perfectly from your own example?"

Boom!

A thunderclap seemed to resound throughout the entire Spring and Autumn Period!

Confucius's face turned deathly pale!

He wanted to refute it; he wanted to say, "King Wu's conquest of Zhou was to mourn the people and punish the guilty," and "King Zhou was tyrannical and abandoned by both Heaven and the people."

However, when he saw the figure of Di Xin, who had shed blood on the battlefield to protect China, on the sky, he couldn't utter a single word!

He knew that many of the "crimes" attributed to Di Xin were indeed deliberately exaggerated and fabricated by the Zhou people in order to "rectify their name".

He also knew that the classics he compiled, such as the Book of Documents, were indeed written from the perspective of the Zhou dynasty, and that they were "selective" in their portrayal of the history of the previous dynasty.

But he always believed that this was for the sake of "righteousness"! It was to establish the rule of "virtue" and replace the rule of "force"!

But now, this descendant has blatantly exposed all his intentions as—collusion! Smear campaign!

The Qin Dynasty

Inside Xianyang Palace.

Ying Zheng slammed his hand on the armrest of the throne and stood up!

An unprecedented light shone in his eyes!

"I see... I see!"

He had always known that their ancestors, E Lai and Fei Lian, were the most loyal ministers under Emperor Xin!

In the Battle of Muye, E'lai fought bravely and died to protect Emperor Xin! Feilian was exiled by King Wu of Zhou!

The Qin and Zhou dynasties were, at their core, mortal enemies!

Therefore, when Qin Shi Huang burned books and buried scholars alive, he was targeting these Confucian scholars who advocated for the Zhou people and distorted the truth!

Before, it was just an instinctive aversion stemming from his bloodline.

But now, the sky has given him the most sufficient and irrefutable reason!

"Excellent! What a brilliant 'stealing five hundred years before, stealing five hundred years after'!"

A cold smile curled at the corners of Ying Zheng's mouth.

"These Confucian scholars are inherently bad!"

"The 'morality' they spout is nothing but a fig leaf for the victors!"

"By imperial decree! The contents of the celestial canopy shall be inscribed on a stone tablet and erected in Xianyang! Let the world see what kind of scoundrels these hypocritical Confucian scholars and their patriarch truly are!"

At this moment, the historical thread that had been severed by the Zhou people from the Shang to the Qin dynasties was reconnected by the sky!

A shared sense of hatred for the enemy transcended hundreds of years, tightly linking the remnants of the Shang dynasty with the rulers and ministers of the Qin dynasty!

They have only one enemy!

That is, the descendants of the Zhou dynasty, and their spiritual offspring, who use the Zhou rites as a pretext and Confucianism as a weapon!